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A group called the Parents Television Council is taking issue with a television commercial the luxury car maker Mercedes-Benz plans to run during Super Bowl XLVII. In the ad, which previewed online, the model Kate Upton distracts a group of guys who are washing a Mercedes-Benz CLA.

The organization said that while the spot isn’t as racy as some big-game ads, its sexual nature sends a poor, disrespectful message to women and is “about selling objectification, not selling cars,” said Melissa Henson, the Council’s director of communications and public education. Read More »

Two weeks ago on “Glee,” Mercedes posed the question some viewers may have been wondering since the beginning of the series: how come she never gets to be the star? Further, and perhaps more importantly, why is she the only African-American principal on the show?

The glee club, on the show and in the American psyche, is not for the cool kids. It operates instead as the home for a diverse group of outcasts, a place where the ostracized find comfort and burst into song. Inspiration and empowerment can come from anywhere, from Fleetwood Mac to “West Side Story,” from Ke$ha to Van Halen. But the absence of black stars is all the more conspicuous given how important African-American musical traditions have been to the development of the music sung by Rachel and the gang. Read More »

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